Protection Requirements Within the scope of the registration procedure, the DPMA mainly examines the formal protection requirements. However, it is also examined whether the subject matter is a technical invention at all or whether the subject matter is excluded from…
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Protectability What can be protected by a utility model? All technical inventions can be protected by a utility model as they can be by a patent. This also includes chemical substances, foodstuffs and medicinal products. Protection is not available for: discoveries,…
Workshops and Online seminars Experts of the search rooms of the DPMA in Munich and Berlin offer multiple workshops on how to use our databases and search tools each year. The workshops are particularly targeted at the staff of small and medium enterprises without or…
Post-it Career of the sticky notes (with a slow start) Every invention is worthless as long as you do not know what you can use it for. At the DPMA, "industrial applicability" is therefore one of the requirements for patentability of an invention. It may occasionally…
Deutsches Patentamt (1945-1998) or Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (since 1998) Prof. Dr. jur. Eduard Reimer Term of office: 1 October 1949 - 5 June 1957 The time without any Patent Office after the end of the Second World War lasted until 1 October 1949, when the…
Fees for design protection Detailed fee information for: National design applications Extension fees Notices and payment periods Warning against misleading requests for payment Fees for design applications For an initial term of protection of five years (with…
Computer-implemented inventions In the age of the Internet, smartphones and digitisation and as part of the 4th Industrial Revolution, it is impossible to imagine technology without software. Many of the latest innovations can be attributed to digital data…
Reichspatentamt 1919 - 1945 Friedrich von Specht Term of office: 1 May 1921 - 30 September 1928 The grandson of the famous military officer of the same name, von Specht was born in Kassel on 6 August 1860 and worked as a lawyer in various positions in the judiciary…